“You sometimes read of laddies like you gettin out of the claws of these spalpeens, but you don't often see it, though you've been lucky enough to get out.”
— from In the Pecos Country by Edward Sylvester Ellis

"Stand up, young woman," said the Queen, but in a kind tone, "and tell me what sort of a barbarous people your country-folk are, where child-murder is become so common as to require the restraint of laws like yours?"
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Walter Scott

Do you remember one long letter you wrote me, the second year after I went?'
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

Ridges of lower lobe yellow and spotted; bearded.
— from The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

she inquired reproachfully of little Link Young.
— from The Doctor : A Tale of the Rockies by Ralph Connor

one sense it caused him misery, by the random remark of Lord Louis, yet, by the agitation of Emmeline, the pang was softened, though he was strengthened in his resolve.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

"The Earl's plans are certainly in a prosperous condition," thought Wilton; and though he could not, of course, approve of the unceremonious means which Lord Sherbrooke took to defeat his father's intentions, and to cast the burden of refusal on Lady Laura, yet he could not grieve, it must be admitted, that she should determine for herself.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James